SANDORICUM INDIOUM. (Nat. order Meliacese.) 



SaNDORICTJM, Cav. — GEN. CHAR. Calyx cupular, the tube adnate with the baag of the ovary, the limb shortly 5-lobed, petals 5 free 

 oblong obtuse imbricate, staminal tube cylindrio 10-toothed at the apex, anthers 10 included, dislc tubular 5-toothed or irregularly 8-10 toothed sheathing 

 the ovary and base of the style, ovary immersed in the base of the calyx 5-eelled attenuated iuto the style, style clavate above and surrounded by a thick- 

 ened ring, stigmas 5 thick erect with the apices recurved ; ovules 2 iu each cell collaterally pendulous from near the apex of the cell, berry superior glo- 

 bose fleshy indehiscent 3-5-celled, cells 1-seeded, the partitions obliterated at maturity. Seeds arillate, arillus parchment like, pulpy on the outside, testa 

 brown polished spongy, cotyledons very thick collateral, radicle superior. Trees, glabrous or tomentose, leaves 3-foliate, panicles axillary, flowers small 

 crowded, fruit apple like acid edible. Cav. Diss. vii. 359, t. 202-3. 



SANDORICUM INDICUM. (Cav.) A good sized elegant tree with a dense globular head, bark smooth greenish, young 

 shoots downy, leaves alternate trifoliate about a foot long, the petiole being 3-4 inches, leaflets ovate entire in age glabrous above 

 slightly downy beneath, 5-7 inches long by 3-4 broad, penniveined, the lateral petiolules about 3 lines long, the terminal one 1-H inches 

 long, panicles finely downy axillary from shorter to a little longer than the leaves, bracts lanceolate, flowers numerous small yellow, 

 calycine segments rounded downy, petals linear oblong, disk irregularly and minutely 8-10 toothed. Anthers sessile, fruit a nearly 

 round berry about the size of a small orange slightly villous yellow wheu ripe. Roxb. Fl, hid. ii. 393. Trichilia nervosa, VaJil. T. 

 venosa, Spr. Melia koetjape, Burm. 



This tree is an introduction from the Molucca 1 }, but is net with in a cultivated slate throughout India, Birmoth and Ceylon ; it flowers 

 in January and February, and the fruit ripens in the rainy season. The limber is white colored and in use for building purposes ; the fruit is 

 talen and made into jelly. The root is bitter and used medicinally. 



Analysis. 



1. Portion of the inflorescence magnified. 



2. A flower bud, petals imbricate. 



3. A full flower. 



4. The same, petals removed. 



5. A petal. 



6. Inside vievv of stamen tube shewing the 10 anthers. 



7. Outside view of the same. 



8. An anther, front view. 



9. An anther, back view. 



10. Ovary, style and the 5 stigmas, the ovary surrounded by a disk. 



1 1. The irregularly toothed disk removed. 



12. Ovary cut vertically, ovules pendulous. 



13. Ovary cut transversely, shewing the 5 cells, each 2 ovuled. 



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